Monopoles and the Chiral Phase Transition in $SU(2)$ Lattice Gauge Theory

Abstract

In the quenched approximation we use the abelian and monopole fields from abelian projection in SU(2) lattice gauge theory to numerically compute the value of the chiral condensate. The condensate calculated using abelian projection is observed to vanish at the same critical temperature as the full SU(2) theory predicts.

Comments: 3 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses espcrc2.sty and psfig.sty, Talk presented at LATTICE96(topology)